Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree Sunday appointing a new cabinet without changing the heads of so-called "sovereign" portfolios, days after confirming Hussein Arnous as the country's premier. The decree, published on the presidency's social media channels, keeps the heads of...

German Gracia Schuette and Syrian Aeham Ahmad both had their lives changed forever by Angela Merkel's decision in 2015 to leave Germany's doors open to hundreds of thousands of refugees. In August of that year, Schuette joined thousands of volunteers serving ladles of hot soup to exhausted...

In her book The First Syrian Martyr, political researcher Dr. Samira Moubayed uncovers the regime’s false claims of its efforts to protect minorities and reveals the extent of its oppression and terrorism against those who oppose it. The book explores the history of the Moubayed family, a...

UN-backed talks on a new constitution for Syria were to resume in Geneva Thursday after Swiss health authorities gave the green light despite four delegates testing positive for Covid-19. The discussions, aimed at rewriting the war-torn country's constitution, were put on hold almost as...